The LNER Encyclopedia

hi all just joined this group tonight, my question is, back in the around the mid 1960s i was employed as a telegraph operator in the box , i later took alternative employment in the engineering industry
i still live localy but would like to know what happened to the box was it destroyed or rebuilt somewhere else i still remember them days

mick

I was also a 'telegraph lad' at Welwyn Garden City straight from school age 15 in the summer of 1972 until early 1974 when the 'lads job' was abolished.

The s/box was closed in September 1976 as part of the Kings Cross-Sandy re-signalling scheme and was shortly thereafter demolished.

I took a couple of b/w kodak photos (without a flash) inside the box at the end of the 'evening peak' one hot and sunny week day evening at about 8:pm back in the summer of 1972 or 73 and (at the moment) they are unfortunately lost but if i find them i will post them.

Happy days indeed...